object to string

[kevin schmidt]

Hi,
I was wondering how a person convert an object to a string. I've tried casting, but it doesn't work. I'm calling a function from a java file that I wrote. It returns a string, but I can't say "String kevin = newName;", it doesn't work. What can I do? TIA.
Kevin

[Danny Davies]

Hi,
every class you create is derived from the class Object, the class Object has a method toString(). So therefore once you create an instance of that class you can call the toString() method. Here's an example, hope this helps.

/*
   small program that converts an object to a string
*/
import java.util.*;
class ObjectToString
{
 public static void main( String args[] )
  {
    GregorianCalendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
    System.out.println( c.toString() );
  }
}

Danny
[This message has been edited by Danny Davies (edited September 10, 2001).]

[Paul Stevens]

It should work just fine. You may need to provide more detail if it still does not work.

SomeObject obj = new SomeObject();
String kevin = obj.someMethod();
//In SomeObject
public String someMethod() {
   String someString = "Why doesn't this work for you";
   //do something else
   return someString;
}